Francis Bacon Biography Bacon, Francis (philosopher) (1561-1626). English philosopher and statesman. One of the pioneers of modern scientific thought. Francis Bacon’s Life Bacon was born on January 22, 1561, at York House, in the Strand, London, and educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Elected to the House of Commons in 1584, he served until […]

The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon THE NEW ATLANTIS BY SIR FRANCIS BACON INTRODUCTORY NOTE Bacon’s literary executor, Dr. Rowley, published “The New Atlantis” in 1627, the year after the author’s death. It seems to have been written about 1623, during that period of literary activity which followed Bacon’s political fall. None of Bacon’s writings […]

The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY. THE Advancement Of Learning. BY FRANCIS BACON. CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited: LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE. 1893. INTRODUCTION. The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and humane. To the King. At London. Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to […]

The Advancement of Learning The First Book of Francis Bacon THE FIRST BOOK OF FRANCIS BACON; OF THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, DIVINE AND HUMAN. To the King. There were under the law, excellent King, both daily sacrifices and freewill offerings; the one proceeding upon ordinary observance, the other upon a devout cheerfulness: in […]

The Advancement of Learning The Second Book of Francis Bacon THE SECOND BOOK OF FRANCIS BACON; To the King. 1. It might seem to have more convenience, though it come often otherwise to pass (excellent King), that those which are fruitful in their generations, and have in themselves the foresight of immortality in their descendants, […]

Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon VALERIUS TERMINUS OF THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE. WITH THE ANNOTATIONS OF HERMES STELLA. A FEW FRAGMENTS OF THE FIRST BOOK. [None of the Annotations of Stella are set down in these Fragments.] CHAPTER I. Of the limits and end of knowledge. In the divine nature, […]

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS Ld. VERULAM VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS Francis Bacon TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERY GOOD LORD THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM HIS GRACE, LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND EXCELLENT LORD: SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a […]

Essay Of Expense by Francis Bacon RICHES are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions. Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well for a man’s country, as for the kingdom of heaven. But ordinary expense, ought to be limited by a […]

Essay Of Deformity by Francis Bacon DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and so they have their revenge of nature. Certainly there is a consent, between the body […]

Essay Of Love by Francis Bacon THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe, that amongst […]

Essay Of Discourse by Francis Bacon SOME, in their discourse, desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were a praise, to know what might be said, and not, what should be thought. Some have certain common places, and themes, […]

Essay Of Friendship by Francis Bacon IT HAD been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. For it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred, and […]